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Tho WinnoWing Fan.

Persecution has ever winnowed the Church.
Through much tribulation men have ever
entered the kingdom Of God. Prosperity
tempts the lovers Of ease and luxury; adver.
sity scatters the fair-weather friends, and
tests the courage of those who remain. II we
had more persecution, we should doubtless
have purer Church and a more effective
ministry. Preaching for salary OF forty
stripes save one, ministers would not devote
their time to the discussion Of the artistic
and aesthetic" or "the objective and the sub
jective;' they would preach Christ Jesus in
language which the common people could
understand. Bonds and Affections, stripes
and imprisonments, would clear the Church
of time-servers and place-seekers, and many
men would either stop preaching or preach
much better than they preach now. They
would wait till they had a message from on
High, and instead Of listening to human
call would 20 on under Divine commission.
Chow shall they preach except they be
sent" The quickening power OF persecution
and reproach would arouse the manhood
which lies dormant in many soul, and many
a preacher who drones bis message to q
drowsy congregation, if quickened by the
spur Of persecution, would become voice
crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way
Of the Lord. Christian, Boston.
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An ObIiging Author.

Paul Duplcssis was a regular contrib.
utor of serial novels to the Patrie. One
evening as he strolled into his favorite
cafe in the Rue DIES Martyrs he was
greeted by his friend Vernct, who had
been anxiouSly expecting him. ''My
uncle" he said. ''is reading your last
novel with fevcrish excitement. lestcr-
dav YOU left the Countess in a most crit
ical situations; she fell into 4 trap laid
for her by those who sought to take her
life. Tell me, does she die?"
YES" was the reply.
Vcrnct struck the table with his fist,
sighing: "Just my luck"
"Why, what can it matter to you?" in
CURED Duplessis. -,
"My uncle has laid me u wager that
she would come to grief, and l, thinking
YOU would want her again before the end
of the story, laid odds to the contrary. u
''Is it heavy bet2"
1.-TWO hundred francs"
"Diantrc." said the author, and, pull
ling out his watch, added: "Nine
o'clock: there is just time to run down to
the printers; Ill take cab and rescue
the Countess. :,
"Will you, thought" Vernet exclaimed,
quite overcome.
Duplessis graspcd his hand and said,
solemnly: ~ promise youto save he!
life. la Famale.
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An Energetic Girl.

Everybody has seen the hams that
hang in front of the butcher shops and
grocery stores. Heat and cold affect
them not, nor arc they injured byintensc
humidity. They look like the genuine
sugar-curcd article, but they are only
sham hams, stuffed with sawdust.
"Who makes them ALL" a West side
butcher was asked.
"AIany are supplied, like prize pack
ages, to their partrons by large ham, bag
manufacturing houses" he replied.
"Some are home made. In this neigh
borhood, however, most of them are
bought from an energetic young woman.
Her father used to be butcher, and was
we'll liked. About two years ago he died
suddenly. The girl, his only child, was
left practically penniless. AS she
couldn't find any other work, she set
about making dummy hams. She had
made several for her father. Knowing
her circumstances, the dealers around her
encouraged the girl by taking the hams.
Her trade spread, and it has become so
large now that she has two young girls to
help her. She makes good living, and
is laying little money by, guess. "
Neo York Sun.
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A Live Stock Reporter.

A New York letter in the Philadelphia
Press says: A striking figure on the
thoroughfare is Miss Middle Morgan,
tall, angular, dressed in women's clothes,
vet with mans taste as to cut and ma
tcrial, and wearing smile as kindly as
her figure looks severe. She never fails
to wrest from all strangers the tribute of
the inquiry: "Who is shel" The an
swer is as surprising as we'll could be
imagined, for she was once the master
(or mistrcss) of the Kings stud in Italy,
and is now the best posted authority on
live stock in America. She is not only
interesting, she is remarkable. Those
who are so fortunate as to know her
apart from her business speak of her as
both brilliant, charming and feminine to
a degree, and in her vocation-the most
difficult, in some places, for woman to
undertakc-shc eXacts admiration as well
as respect. Whenever l hear the empty
head argue that lovely woman would
not be respected If she entered politics,
trade, or certain Of the professions, al
ways think of Miss Morgan going day
after day, year in and year out, up to the
cattle pens by the river and out upon the
stock farms aud making the wisest men
in that line forget her sex in the admira-
tion of her genius.
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Preaching Honesty.

We do not think that there has been any
hesitation on the part of Othodox ministers
about teaching, in the general way, that men
ought to be honest. The fact that religion
must include. morality is asserted by them
strongly and frequently. The great lack has
been careful and minute application Of this
truth to the affairs of every day. Men must
not ONLY be told that they ought to be honest;
they must also be told what honesty Is. A
close and faithful application of the moral
law to the business of life needs often to be
made. It is in this, if in anything, that the
modern pulpit has failed.
The thing that is needed Is that the COM
mand, "Thou shalt not steai," should be
translated into the terms of modern CONNER
cial life. It ought to be shown, to begin
with, that cheating is stealing; that every
transaction in which by deceit or conceal
ment or Misrepresentation man obtains
money or other valuables that he could not
have obtained if he had told the truth, is a
direct infraction Of the eighth commandment;
that he who gains an advantage by telling
lie or by hiding in truth in commercial
transaction, is lust as really thief, in the
sight Of Gods law, as he who picks his neigh
boris pocket
Then, 1t ought to be shown with equal dis
tinctness that the commandment forblds all
violations of the law Of trust. He who ap-
propriates to his own uses property entrusted
to him for safe keeping IS a thief be VINO
risks in private speculation the property
which has been placed in his hands for spe-
cific purposes is thief. The boy who spends
the money of his Sunday-school class, or OF
his ball-club, for his own purposes, breaks
the eighth commandment. He may intend
to replace the money thus taken: he may
think he knows just where he will be able to
obtain it.; but this gives him no right to take
it. Every penny Of it ought to be sacredly
kept, that he may give at any moment any
exact account Of his stewardship.
Such distinct applications of the Bible law
of honesty to the affairs of every day are al
ways needed, and if the pulpit has failed at
all, it has probably failed just here. 1t Is
not only true that we have not made enough
of honesty, it is also true that we have not
made it so plain as we ought to have done,
what honesty requires and forbids. Specific
and elementary teaching from the pulpit on
this point would be timely and serviceable.-
[Sunday Afternoon.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

A church organ constructed entirely
of paper is on exhibition at Milan.
A Florida woman has made a bed quilt
containing 5000 pieces less than the
size of O mans thumb-nail.
Texas has 1SO counties, and is as large
as Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan combined.
The first city in America to employ gas
in lighting tie streets was Baltimore.
The street lamps were first lighted in
1916.
A trumpet has been invented for tele-
phoning at sea, by which conversations
are said to be carried on miles apart with
no wire.
Coming with die was first invented
in 1917, and first used in England in
1920, the year the Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth.
Mahmoud, the NTohammedan Sultan OF
China about A. D. 1000, invaded India
twelve times and laid the foundation OF
the Mojul empire.
Among the early Romans commanders
of armies were called "impcritores, but
when Cesar became Emperor. the COM
manders were called dukes or lieutenants
of provinces.
There are cities in Asia the date of
whose origin is not actually known, but
it is known that they are older than
Rome or any other city in Europe. Jeru-
salem and Hebron in Palestine and Da-
mascus in Syria are oil many centuries
older than Rome.
''The Middle Ages" is name applied
to the period between the fall of the
Roman Empire in the Fifth Century and
the invention of printing in the Fifteenth.
Or, as timed by some historians, from thu
invasion of France by Clovis in 4S6 Il
that of Naples by Charles VIII. in 1895.
1t comprised about ten centuris, and is
often called s'The Dark Ages"
In recent letter to a daily paper, a
correspondent states that he has made
twenty-six trips or fifty-two tours across
across the Atlantic, and has in every in
stance except the last, suffered very much
from seasickness. On this last trip, he
had with him rubber bag, twelve
inches long and inches wide, the
mouth of which was closed by an iron
clamp. This he filled with small pieces
of ice, and applied to the spine at the
base of the brain for half or three-quar'
tiers of an hour every morning. 1t had 0
most soothing effect, and he enjoyed
every hour and every meal.
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How Margaret Drew the Line.

Our pantry is next to our kitchen,
where Margaret received the visits of
her Mickey. One evening l went down
to the pantry for something, and while
there was an involuntary eavesdroppcr
on poor Margaret. She had contided to
me only few days before that, shortly
after Lent, we would have to look out
for new girl, and we consequently re-
celved Mickey with more good will than
before he had declared his intentions,
although we were sorry to think we
would lose Margaret. On the evening
in question Mickey was in the kitchen,
where Margaret was finishing up her
work. After the rumble of Il gridiron
falling to the floor had subsidized, heard
the following dialogue:
''No, Mickey. No, you cannot"
"Ah, Maggie, dear, gi me one kiss
from those sweet lips"
"Mickcy," replied Margaret, in stern
voice, ''you must own the bowl before
you claim the sugar" I recommend
Margaret's views to the serious consldera-
ton of young ladies who are unable to
decide what is the proper conduct for
engaged couples without writing to the
newspapers. Louis Post Dispatch.
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Afraid OF the Rum Olisarchy.

A Phenixville cotemporary aLtly remarks:
1.-The great papers OF Philadelphia are wide
awake to the enornlity of the crime Of color
ing noodles and other eatables with chrome
yellow, but they fail to catch on to the dance
of death going on by the coloring and other
deadly ingredients of the rum sold in their
midst. And how strange that is" 1t might
seem strange, ,"esteeined editor, but do you
not realize what miserable towards these
metropolitan brethren are. They make pre-
tensions OF being the educators Of the public
morals, but dare not strike at the root OF the
evil polluting the morals. They are abso-
lutely afraid of the rum oiigarchy. Not a
Philadelphia editor has the courage to court
the consequences of opposing the liquor traf
&c. Tney ignore the greatest Issue of the day
to deal with few ignorant German bakers
using substitute for eggs. Chrome yellow
carries off some little innocent once month,
perhaps, but the close of each day marks a
dozen of funerals bearing to their final rest
ing places wrecks of what was once sturdy
manhood-victins of dram shops that are
permitted to confront the public at almost
svery corner. Stepstones to disaster; foun-
dations tohelL-West GTore (Penn.) Inldspen-
dent.
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Beer and Brandy.

Commenting upon the folly Of trying to
lessen drunkenness by encouraging tho con
sumption of the alilder intoXscantS, Dr. feilA
Oswald says:
"We cannot ssht rum with lagsr-beer
All poison habits are progressive and we
have seen that the beer vice is always apt TO
eventua;e III a brandy vice, or else to e4ualzes
the ditrere.,ce by progressive enlargement
of the dose. Common brandy contains oo
per cent. of alcohol, lager about IL; - SO SO
If A drinks one glass OF brandy and Is i've
glasas of beer, they have outraged taeii
! Viii incur the same penalty. Total abstinence
is the safe plan, nay, tho only safe plan, 1or S,
poisons cannot Ee reduced to a harm!ss'
| dose"
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TEMPERANCE.

The Temperance Banner.
Wave high the temperance banner
And let the people see
The banner gaily floating
'Gainst wrong and slavery.
Tell out the shameful story
Of what strong drink has done
Tell, tell the shameful story
To all beneath the sun.
The young, the brave, the valiant,
VIII list in noble fight
Against this foe so treacherous,
And battle for the right
Shrink not, pause not, nor tremble;
The enemy is by,
His deeds OF rueful sorrow
Are seen by every eye.
-louth's Temperance Banner.
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Flowers in the Hat.

It is the custom in the Tyrol for man,
when he is engaged to be married, to
wear bouquet in his hat. The damsel
gives him, every day or two a fresh
bouquet, picked from the flower pots in
her window. Should she prove tickle.
and tilt the swain, the other young men
Of the village assemble under her window
and throw down the flower pots.
A stranger wonders, on seeing so many
men with bouquets stuck in their hats,
why they did not marry, especially as not
n few of them are what we call "old
bachelors" The explanation IS that the
village commune will not allow any per-
son to marry, unless he can show that he
has laid by sum of money sufficient to
support a family.
a lady travelling through Tyrol in a
stell waron-a cruSs between diligence
and an omnibus-overheard the driver
talking to man at his side on the box,
and complaining of his occupation.
He had worked hard for many years,
he said, to get money enough to marry
but the sum was far below what 1t must
lie before the commune would give him
permission to marry the woman to whom
he was engaged. 1t increased SO slowly
that he did not know if he should ever
get the coveted permission.
The lady's heart so[tcncd toward the
poor fellow, and she gave him large
a,our loiyr, or drink money, as the fec is
called.
Sometimes dozen or more OF engaged
youn~ men and women. dcspairing of
ever getting money enough to secure
the c0mmunc's permission, 60 on a
pilgrimage to Rome, begging their way
on foot. When there they are married,
but on their return to the native village
they arc fined as punishment for break,
ino the law.-IoutHs Companirn.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
A Song Of Rest.

o weary hands that all the day
We set to labor hard and long;
Now softly fall the shadows gray;
The bells are rung for even song.
An hour ago the golden sun
Sank slowly down into the west;
Poor, weary hands, your toll is done,
'Tis time for rest!-'tis time for resti
o weary feet that many mile .
Have trudged along stony way,
At last ye reach the trysting stile;
No longer fear to go astray.
The gentle bending, rustling trees
Rock the young birds within the nest,
And softly sings the quiet breeze:
"'Tis time for rest-'tis time for rest"
O weary eyes from which the tears
Fell many time like thunder rain;
o weary hearts that through the years
Beat with such bitter, restless pain,
Tonight forget the stormy strife,
And know what Heaven shall send is best;
Lay down the tangled web Of life,
'Tis time for rest-'tis time for rest.
-[Chambers' Magazine.
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W O. r. u. Mates,

Thirteen cities and 215 towns and villages
of Massachusetts, are undsr Prohibition this
year.
Mrs James Denholnl. Roodebloena Cape
Town, has consented to- act as the worlds W.
C. T. U. Vice-President for Africa
Mrs. Mary Clement Lsavitt writes that al
the American missions in Burmah nave ID
corporated total abstinence i'll theT wora'
Recent statistics show that the drink rim 6il @ Of
Great Britain was, in lSs, tlI,'s,s;'ec4 r.. Gs' as
than in 1875 While III 1876 it averaged FL IS
in m 1856 the average was g3 Is. Sd. per heal of
the population.
Mayor Eslick, of Fitchbarg, Mas. after {
trial of e year Of no license IN that city' rd
en:'SSen en'asfs of jails lssscnsd $ per cont ex
c,ense; for Department Of Poor reduced from III
$4,000 to $4,000; applications for aid re
| fuced from 40l to 295; arrests for rlolatlct,
of the liquor law-2 under license, under n
l license n,
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It Docs Prohibit.

One Of the strongest arguments the liquor
men claim against prohibition is that it does
not prohibit. This is claimed here in Tennes-
see, where it has never been tried, and we
fail to understand how such claim can be
established.
They point to other states where it has been
tried and say it is not successful there, but
these people who inaugurated it say it is sue
cessful, and they are certainly the Host re,
liable witnesses Oh the subject, ami why:
Simply because their sole object IS the pro.
hibition of the manufacture and sale OF
whiskey, and they are satisfied. IT prohl-
bition did not prohibit they would be the first
ones to condemn it. They wouL1 want to
try something else.
But they make no complaint: on the con-
trary. they say prohibition is success. They
do not ask for anything better. The prohl-
bition laws fill all the requirements, and,
consequently, it is n success, and the temper
ance people do not ask for, nor want, any
thing more efficient.
This is an argument that completely and
Totally dcmolishes the statement which liquor
men make to the effect that prohibition does
not prohibit. t.-ChattanooJa Commercial
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Clara Belle, the New York correspond
ent, tells this story: a genuine adven-
ture was enjoyed by a lady whom | know.
It proved that the babies of enormous
wealth could tell strange stories if they
could talk. My friend went in pursuit
of a cook. She chased this animal to Il
lair in East Sixteenth street, where, in a
towering rear tenement house, dwelt un-
counted families. She had passed
through paved court, in which a drip
ping hydrant had formed hideouspo
and about the Shiny edges played dirty,
miserable children, grimy, unkcmpt
little hoodlums; bnt ir the arms of one
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
ELOQUENT Silence.

A lover once ponIereI an amorous plea
For many day,
Resolved that the tale Of his passion should be
Told in a neat way.
The tenderest terms of the language he
sought,
And conned them till all were arranged Us
they ought.
"I'm perfectly certain what I'll say" he
thought,
"Oh, what will she say!"
Yet, strangely enough, when he knelt by her
side,
1t CHANGED to befall
That none of the eloquent speeches he tried
Would come at his call
His cowardly tongue could say little, at best
But his brave eyes said much-and a kiss
said the rest,
While she only hid her fair face in his breast,
Saying nothing at all!
-lId-BitS.
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Harmony With God.

For some unknown cause, in distant ages
past. the harmony of heaven was for q time
disturbed. A portion of the angels came into
disagreement with God. They rose up In re-
belIion against him, for which cause they
were cast out, and thus harmony was re-
stored. g,
All sinners are at disagreement with God.
There is no harmony between them and their
Maker. and there never can be so long as
thew are sinners. Were they to be admitted
to heaven, its harmony would at once be de-
stroyed. There could be no friendship be-
tween them and God There would be moth
ing on which they could be agreed They
would have no heart to JOIN in the songs Of
that blessed world. Werethey to attempt 1t,
thew would be rendered discordant They
would be out of harmony with all things.
There is an indispensable necessity that they
should be excluded. And nowhere can SIM
ners be happy, so long as they are sinners,
and cherish the spirit of rebellion: There
no peace, saith my God, to the wicked: The
wicked are like the troubled sea, wnen II
cannot rest, whose waters cast up mlre and
dirt"
And vet there is a possibility that sinners
NAV he prepared for heaven and become clt1-
zens of that happy world. God, in his inf
mite wisdom and goodness, has provided q
way, honorable to himself, and suited to the
needs of sinners. At an infinite cost satlstac-
ton has been made to justice, so that on gra-
cious terms rebels may be pardoned and
justified And not only so, but provision has
been made whereby they may be sanctlt1ed.
A fountain has been opened for sin and for
uncleanness The Holy Spirit sheds abroad
the love of God in the heart and works in it
that perfect holiness without which no man
shall see the Lord. This has already been
done in innumerable instances. Already
there. is great multitude, which no man
can number, before the throne Of Cox, In per-
feet harmony with him, all Of whom were
once in a state Of rebellion. The millions OF
the saints and all the holy angels and God are
all of one accord, and ''perfect love and
friendship reign," and will reign TO- all eter-
nity.-lClericus IN n. Y. Observer
Einnaus, the great Swedish botanist, OBJ
serving the beautiful order whlcn relSnS
among flowers, proposed the use OF foral
eipck,, TO be- composed of plants, which open
and close their blossoms at particular hours;
as for instance the dandelion, which opens lbs
petals at six in the morning, the haWkweed
at seven. the suecory at eight. the celandlne
at nine, aud so on; the closing of the flowers
being marked with an equal. regularity so.aS
to indicate the progress Of tlis afternoon and
the evening. Would it not be lovely thing
if thus with flowers of gracaand blossoms Of
virtue We bedecked every passing hour. full
filling all the duties of each season andhonor>
ing Him who maketh tie outgoings of the
morning and the evening to rejoicsi: Thus
| with ursfeviating regul arity to obey the. In
fiuence of the Sun of Righteousness, and give
each following momen9as due, were'to begin
the life cf heaven bensash the starS{Spur-
CeOn.
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One army Of the living God
10 whose command we bow
Part OF the host have Gro sed the flood

And part arc Crossing now
And expect to see the day when all de-
nominations OF Christians shall join hands
around the cross of hrist and recite the
creed II believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, and in the communion OF s,ints, and
in the life everlasting" May God lspire US
oil with the largest hearted Christian charity!